Improvement in tobacco-pipes



A. L BOWEN.

i Tobacco Pipe. No. 35,559. f f Patented me 1o, 1852.r

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW J. BOWEN, OE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AssIeNORTO HIMsELE I AND LEVIK. BOWEN, OE sAME BLAOE.

I MPROVEM ENTn IN TOBACCO-Pl PES.

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My improvement is designed to prevent the nicotine or any loffensivefluid or -material produced in smoking the tobacco or other substancefrom reaching the mouth, and thus relieve the smoke from the evils ofthe pipe of the usual or common construction.

`The bowl c of a pipe having my improve- A ment, can be made of anydesirable shape or form and of `any material used in makingsmoking-pipes, as can also the stem, mouthpiece, and cup or receptacle.To the bottom of the bowl a cup or receptacle, d,`.is so attachedbyscrew-threads upon the surfaces of the bowl or body and cup in contact,or by any other convenient means, that it can readily be detached andcleaned. In this cup can be put a piece of sponge or any other absorbingsubstance for retaining the fluid passed down to the cup. The bowl ofthe pipe, when in use,

will be in communication with one tube or y channel, a, of the stem,while the cup will be in communication with another tube or chan'- nel,b. The tube b can extend beyond the stem a short distance, asindicatedat E', and as the extension will t Into the channel b of the pipe, itwill serve to strengthen the con- -tain space between their point'ofunion and the mouth-piece for the condensing of the vapor Within thestem. As is shown by the drawing, the condensed vapor or the fluid ofcondensation will find its way to the cup or receptacle down the passageb, as will also the saliva from the mouth of the smoker, and thus thesmoke, which will pass into the mouth of the smoker will be pure andfree from nicotine and from all noxious or offensive vapors or liquid. YThe stem being constructed as here recited and shown, can be connectedto a mouth-piece of any kind ordinarily used, and both the mouth-pieceand the stem can be detached from the pipe and from each other, so thateach and every part of this pipe can easily and readily be cleaned, andin case of breakage of any one piece its place can be easily supplied.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, asan improvement M on pipes for smoking tobacco, &c., i'sv The two tubesor channels a and b in the stem, in combination with the bowl c and cupor receptacle d, as herein set forth.

This specification signed this 25th day of April, 1862.

A. J. BOWEN.

